This poem asks "Who can live for long / In a euphoric dream" in its fourth stanza. It later describes people who "wake / to resume their compulsory game" and other people who vow "I will be true to the wife / I'll concentrate more on my work" before asking "Who can release them now?" It asks "what huge imago made / a psychopathic god" before invoking "Exiled Thucydides". The speaker expresses his disgust with "the windiest (*) militant trash / Important Persons shout" and asserts that "What mad Nijinsky wrote / About Diaghilev / Is true of the normal heart". Its penultimate stanza notes that "There is no such thing as the State / And no one exists alone" before concluding "We must love one another or die." For 10 points, identify this poem written "in one of the di
This poem asks "Who can live for long / In a euphoric dream" in its fourth stanza. It later describes people who "wake / to resume their compulsory game" and other people who vow "I will be true to the wife / I'll concentrate more on my work" before asking "Who can release them now?" It asks "what huge imago made / a psychopathic god" before invoking "Exiled Thucydides". The speaker expresses his disgust with "the windiest (*) militant trash / Important Persons shout" and asserts that "What mad Nijinsky wrote / About Diaghilev / Is true of the normal heart". Its penultimate stanza notes that "There is no such thing as the State / And no one exists alone" before concluding "We must love one another or die." For 10 points, identify this poem written "in one of the dives / on Fifty-Second Street" by W.H. Auden, titled for the date on which Germany invaded Poland.
This poem asks "Who can live for long / In a euphoric dream" in its fourth stanza.
“{September} 1, 1939”